Politicizing Asian American literature : towards a critical multiculturalism /
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| Author / Creator: | Chae, Youngsuk. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, c2008. |
| Description: | xii, 169 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Asian Americans Asian Americans. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6640994 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "Who Consumes Multiculturalism?"
- Part 1. Politically Acquiescent Asian American Multiculturalism
- Chapter 1. Cultural Economies of Model Minority Creation
- Chapter 2. Measuring Silences in Popular Asian American Literature
- Part 2. Politically Conscious Asian American Multiculturalism
- Chapter 3. Beyond Ethnicity: The Critical Movement in Asian American Literature
- Chapter 4. Is There Any Essential Component of Asian American Literature?: Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
- Chapter 5. Counteracting the Hegemonic Discourse of "America": Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats
- Conclusion: Multiculturalism, or an International Marketing of U.S. Capitalism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
